Charlie Kirk murder suspect appeared to confess to killing on Discord, company says

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Just hours before Tyler Robinson was arrested for allegedly killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the 22-year-old appeared to take responsibility for the shooting in a message to friends on the chat platform Discord, a company spokesperson confirmed to CBS News on Monday.

"Hey guys, I have bad news for you all," read a message from an account that allegedly belonged to Robinson, according to the spokesperson and a law enforcement source. "It was me at UVU yesterday. im sorry for all of this."

The messages were first reported by The Washington Post.

The messages came toward the end of a nearly two-day-long manhunt after Kirk was fatally shot during an outdoor event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said Robinson confessed to his father. Robinson was taken into custody late Thursday night, FBI Director Kash Patel said Friday.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/charlie-kirk-murder-suspect-appeared-025300731.html

But it's the radical left!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Donny Dementia and JD "couch fucker" Vance.

[AZJonnie]

1. I'm not sure how this tidbit of information tells us anything about his political leanings?

Do I need to read the whole article?

[leftstreet]

2. Yeah, isn't Discord basically a gamer site?

[AZJonnie]

4. Discord is chat software like Skype, Zoom, Facetime, and Slack

It can be (and is) used to assemble chat groups that talk about anything.

[RockRaven]

5. I did, so you don't have to. The article doesn't say the nature of the Discord community

in question, just that it was a group of approx 20 users.

[AZJonnie]

7. Thank you sir/madam/they

[fujiyamasan]

8. Yes, I'm not getting anything about Robinson ideologically one way or the other

Trump and the rest on that side automatically labelled him “radical left”, because it fits their agenda to crack down on all dissent.

So far, there’s no indication of Robinson leaning to the left. There was some talk he was angry about the administration’s attacks on trans people, but that’s it, along with the inscriptions, but part of they could be just the bizarre discord video game culture he was part of.

At the same time, I have yet to see evidence he was a follower of Fuentes and his “groyper” faction or whatever it’s called. It’s more likely he fits this profile, but these groups are not strictly ideological. They are however nihilistic, and basically one more indication society has raised a lot of young men very poorly, with few real marketable skills for a career, no social skills to find a significant other, raised by violent video games and surrounded by guns, and influenced by podcasters who constantly make them feel like a victim.

[AZJonnie]

10. Other than the song Bello Ciao being on his bullet casing and also on a Spotify playlist

Labeled "Groyper Wars (America First)", added as one of the first handfuls of songs making up the playlist when created in 2023, me either.

But that does in a way rule out any proof-positive claim that this song being on the casing indicates that he was "Antifa" since it indicates at least some Groypers (who are NOT Antifa) have claimed it as their own as well. The far right calls everyone else fascists, in a sort of "I know you are but what am I?" childish chide.

[LeftInTX]

12. Bella Ciao is in a violent video game called Far Cry 6. Some guy goes around shooting everything in site

while the song is playing.

I see no connection to that game and anything anti-Fascist. The game is supposedly based on fictional island with fictional people based on the Cuban Revolution and Batista, but it's a game and who knows if the players even understand? Was Batista fascist? Was Fidel Castro antifa? I think the Groypers simple enjoy the violence of the game and do not aspire Fidel Castro's vision.

The scene with Bella Ciao is a mass shooter's wet dream.

[AZJonnie]

13. It's not "supposedly", you have it right :)

The leader (played by the great Giancarlo Esposito) is megalomaniacal, extremely violent and oppressive, and into the drug trade, but beyond that, his "politics" are really not elucidated. IIRC the characters in the game call him a fascist, and the word communist is not mentioned. Like all Far Cry games, its settings are reminiscent of some "place", and sometimes roughly a "time", but very loosely so.

Tie-ins are it's an island (islands actually), a fair bit of the music has I guess what you could call a Cuban style, it's a sub-tropical island, it's a revolution vs. an evil dictator, the characters speak with Spanish accents (the voice acting is actually great, everyone sounds legit), and some characters want to take boats to America to escape the dictator. But it's definitely not a re-enactment of the Cuban revolution, people in game have cell phones and much more modern weaponry, and there's zero tie-ins to the outside world/historic events other than that America exists to be escaped to by boat.

The people being killed by the protagonist in that sequence are the dictators minions, and it's in one of his drug-producing fields, which produce a lot of environmental degradation and poison the communities nearby with toxic run-off. It's really not a "mass shooting" type scenario

[walkingman]

3. If the world never heard Charlie's name again we would all probably be better off.

[Renew Deal]

6. Which Discord server did he post that on?

That will help you understand his motives.

[AZJonnie]

11. Perhaps more importantly, who else is in his group

Discord servers can be set up by anyone with any name/topic, its not like DU where they have a set of fixed titles/purposes. I would imagine that every other person (at least, that can be identified) in the group either has been, or will be questioned, and all the past conversations reviewed by the FBI.

Of course that doesn't mean we'll get an honest accounting of what they found, not with this FBI.